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I must look hungry. A week after Lynn gave me a bunch of food, my weightlifting teacher gave me a bunch of apples from his tree. “Take all you want,” he said. “We’re never going to be able to use them all.” He even grabbed a large paper grocery bag, handed it to me and [...]

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I love Nicoise salad (or salade nicoise, as you prefer), and the fruits and vegetables to make it are rolling in. As Michele Humes noted, it’s a dish that has a melange of variations, but I pretty much quit worrying about what’s the “right” way to make it years ago. I’m just happy when I [...]

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In honor of my nephew’s show at the new DotDotDot ArtSpace , which has some food-related themes, I go off-topic a bit to show a couple of his watercolors as well as an etching by his grandfather, my dad. They both show an affection for irony.
Below are two of Rob’s paintings. They’re watercolor on paper, [...]

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Sometimes I think we American cooks get too caught up in what’s fashionable to prepare rather than focusing on what’s divine to eat. Consider peches cardinal. Sort of like Peach Melba without the ice cream, peches cardinal combines two divine fruits—ripe peaches and raspberries—prepared to underscore their savor and highlighted with a touch of vanilla [...]

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I think we’re getting inured to unsafe food, as the salmonella poisoning seems to barely register on the news radar this week, locally or nationally. Here’s some of what is in the local news, food-wise:
Lunch ticket gets punched. Topeka school meal planners wrangle with higher food costs. (Topeka Capitol-Journal) Lawrence schools, too. (LJ World)
New assistant [...]

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Fourth of July in my neighborhood has meant, for the past many years, a pure-Americana parade that ends, naturally, with refreshments. Neither the parade nor the refreshments are really the point, to my way of thinking. It’s much more about community and our individual ways of expressing our love of it. I’m glad to live [...]

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